The meeting, which did not reach much consensus, ended in a hurry, and Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, hurried to meet with President George H.W. Bush and report to him. Presidential Security Adviser Scott Troft, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, White House Chief of Staff Sununu and others were present to participate in the discussion.

After listening to Powell's report, Bush Sr. frowned and said: "The Israelis are crazy, and if they don't understand the general situation like this, the results may be extremely negative, not only will they not be able to help themselves, but they may also disintegrate the alliance that we have worked so hard to build." ”

Secretary of State James? Baker was most anxious, because he had taken the greatest credit for piecing together this alliance of dozens of countries, and if it was destroyed by Israel, it would be tantamount to the disillusionment of one of his great achievements in history, so he said: "Israel must not be allowed to do whatever it wants, and we should exert more pressure to force Israel to abandon military action." There are many ways in which we can control Israel, such as military equipment support, military aid, etc., and we can also use harsher words to discourage Israel's imminent move. ”

Scotroft shook his head and said: "This may have an effect, but it will undoubtedly seriously hurt US-Israeli relations and cause strong anti-American sentiment in Israel, which is not a smart option in the long run." ”

Bush Sr. nodded approvingly and said: "It is really not good to stop Israel in a too hasty and reckless way. ”

Cheney followed: "At this time, it is indeed easy to counterproductive if the threat is too much, and Israel has always had a relatively strong independence and autonomy, and it does not listen too much to our greetings. So at this time, we had better increase our lobbying for the Israeli side, and the most important thing is to stabilize its Prime Minister Shamir, and also, the multinational force must show Israel that we are capable of destroying Iraq's Scud missile forces, even if it is to double the air strike force, and we can also send special forces into the rear to destroy these missile positions, and the way, whether good or bad, at least let Israel know that they have not yet reached the point of despair. ”

The elder Bush deeply trusted Cheney, believed that Cheney was enough to appoint, and greatly agreed with his statement.

"It's not just a matter for the United States, it's a matter for maintaining the alliance of multinational forces, so we can use not only the diplomatic and military power of the United States of America, but also the power of our allies," Scott Rovt added. ”

Bush Sr. hesitated: "You mean, looking for China?" ”

Scott Troft didn't nod, but it was a tacit acquiescence, he said: "In the past few days, I have studied the specific battle report in detail, and found that in the ground strike, the air attack efficiency of the Chinese Air Force is nearly twice that of our US military, which is bound to be related to the fact that their fighters have relatively advanced ground attack equipment, and it also verifies that the Chinese side has a strong ability to collect intelligence, analyze and judge, and they have almost never attacked any false targets in the strikes in the past few days, and the mission accuracy rate is also quite high. And I watched the sorties of the Chinese Air Force again, and I said very politely that they are still fighting very well, and sometimes a fighter plane flies once a day to finish. If we can fully mobilize the strength of the Chinese Air Force, we will be able to at least double our reconnaissance and strike capabilities against Iraq's missile positions. ”

Sununu was curious: "Since the Chinese Air Force is capable, why is it so inactive?" ”

Cheney interjected: "This has nothing to do with them, it is an order of the Joint Operations Command, and Schwartzkov does not want to see the Chinese steal our limelight, so he is deliberately suppressing the number of Chinese fighters." ”

When Bush Sr. heard this, he was furious: "This is a war, not politics, what is Schwartzkov doing?" If he doesn't want to do it, I bet dozens of generals across the United States will be happy to take his errand and put their names in American history textbooks. Since the Chinese Air Force has such a capability, we must make good use of it, because if the war lasts one more day, it will burn our own money and damage the lives of our own boys! ”

Scott Troft interjected again: "One more thing, Mr. President. The example given by the Israeli deputy chief of staff is actually very helpful to us as well. Indeed, there has been only one case of missile landing in Saudi Arabia so far, and no substantial damage has been caused. Everything else was destroyed in the air. This can only show one thing, China's air defense missile forces are indeed stronger than our immature Patriots, so we now see that Saudi Arabia, which has 10 Chinese missile battalions and its own air defense missile battalion equipped with more than 20 Chinese missiles, is in sharp contrast to Israel, whose patience has been seriously worn down by successive attacks.

While this is an insult to our own defense industry, it is also a fact that the Patriots failed and the Chinese missiles did a good job of handing in a satisfactory answer to the user's satisfaction. As you said, now that we're at war, the losses from the minutiae can be even greater, and Israel needs more theater missile defenses, and the Chinese allies obviously have that capability, they have 10 missile battalions in Saudi Arabia, and two more are at sea, and they will soon arrive in Julebay. Now that Saudi Arabia actually has a surplus of defense capabilities, while Israel is insufficient, I think that the dispatch of Chinese missile units to Israel to assist in the defense of the country can be said to be an outright bad idea, but it is a bad idea that we have to make. ”

Everyone present wanted to refute Scottrovt, but Scottrovt made it very clear, if the Patriot is really easy to use, then it's nothing, Iraq fired missiles for a few days, and the Patriot completed a successful interception, while China's two missiles made continuous achievements and only lost the target once. Although there are more missiles attacking Israel than Saudi Arabia, even if you calculate the absolute numbers, the total number of interceptions of Hongqi-9 and Thorn-2 is much greater than 1.

After thinking about it, Bush Sr. had to admit that Scottrovt's words were reasonable, and it was possible that Israel would fall in love with buying China's defense weapons from now on, but Bush Sr. believed that this situation was controllable. The patriot is immature at this time, but in the future, he firmly believes that it will be better than China's products, and Israel will still choose the new generation of patriots from the United States instead of China's red flags and thorns.

If we narrowly refuse to allow Chinese missiles to enter Israel, and just look at Israel as it continues to be attacked by Iraq's missiles, once this matter is discovered, it may cause great damage to US-Israel relations. In addition, if Israel is really abused to the point that it can no longer bear to send troops, then all the plans and plans that the United States has made before will be in vain, and the United States absolutely does not want to see this scene.

"Well, if that's the case, then let that old guy Schwartzkov send some of the Chinese anti-aircraft missile units into Israel to participate in the defense mission......" Bush said helplessly.

Soon after, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell met with Israeli Deputy Chief of Staff Barak here and sincerely assured him that the multinational forces would do everything possible to prevent Iraq from launching missile attacks on Israel, and in addition to concentrating a larger number of air forces to search for and destroy Iraq's Scud missile launchers, the special forces of the United States, Britain, and China would infiltrate the rear of Iraq's defense lines to search for Scud missile launchers and wait for an opportunity to destroy them. More importantly, in order to increase Israel's security, the United States will deploy more Patriot missiles in Israel, and will also invite China's anti-aircraft missile forces to be stationed in Israel.

Barak expressed general satisfaction with this and pledged that Israel would not easily use force to launch a retaliatory military action if the situation did not go for the worse.

The Joint Operations Command finally issued an order to dispatch ******** Hongqi-9 anti-aircraft missile battalion into Israel, an order that made Qi Yiming both expected and unexpected. In fact, he insisted on sending a large number of anti-aircraft missile units into Saudi Arabia that were completely unnecessary earlier, and he did not have any good intentions.

On the one hand, he wants Saudi Arabia to see that China attaches great importance to protecting Saudi Arabia and enhancing relations between the two sides, and on the other hand, he also hopes that more troops will have the opportunity to be tested in actual combat, which is also a good window to show the world China's achievements in national defense construction. Air defense missiles, especially those used to deal with surface-to-surface missiles in theaters, symbolize the construction capability of extremely high-precision national defense equipment; on the other hand, Turkey announced that it would buy China's Hongqi-9 missiles, which immediately caused an uproar in the West, making the United States, Britain and other countries and NATO very nervous, and at the same time, this advertisement also promoted the enthusiasm of some other countries to buy Chinese missiles.

During the Gulf War, the widely circulated Patriot's interception of Scud missiles became a microcosm of normal warfare, and it also became a starting point for the future Patriot to be marketed in many countries. Qi Yiming is not worried about comparison, because even the Thorn-2 missiles equipped by Saudi Arabia are slightly stronger than the current Patriot-1, not to mention the Hongqi-9 missiles used by China.

These Chinese air defense and missile units were all trained by Qi Yiming by taking advantage of the convenience of the base and using real guns and live ammunition; whether it is intelligence collection and processing, grasping the timing of a strike, or countermeasures under chaotic electromagnetic conditions, these missile units are all top sticks, and it can be said that their experience is much stronger than that of the US group of missile troops. At this time, after the Patriot continued to work for 100 hours, the system time would be pushed back by a third of a second, which seemed to be very small, but it would deviate the trajectory by 600 meters, and the US military did not know how to correct the trajectory so that it could hit the target again, which shows that their test launch was actually not enough at all.